盆栽は育てるのが難しいと思われがちですが、毎日の水やりと愛情で簡単に育てられます。盆栽を自分の空間に取り入れることで生活のゆとりが生まれたくさんの感動を体感することができます。なにより、盆栽は私たちに様々なことを教えてくれます。
・盆栽には、テレビや雑誌などの新鮮味欠ける作られた色ではなく、本物の五感で感じる色彩があります。色彩感覚は生活するうえで無意識にも大きい影響があります。生きた色彩に心も体も癒やされましょう。
・盆栽は自分を映す鏡。自分を見つめながら共に歳を重ねて共に成長できます。プロやベテラン盆栽愛好家の人は、盆栽を見ただけで誰の盆栽か不思議とわかってくるんですよ。
・樹は二酸化炭素を吸い酸素を作りだします。流行の酸素器具より自然の生きた酸素を味わえます。また盆栽に水をかけると、大量のマイナスイオンがでて肌にイイとTVでも紹介されていました。盆栽を育てるだけで自然とecoにつながり自分の盆栽たちに愛情を注げば注ぐほど周りの海や川や山、自然の生態系も自然に良くなると思います。
盆栽には口はありませんが心はあります。手をかけた分、美しい姿になって応えてくれます。私は本当の愛とは与え合う事を盆栽から学びました。自分が盆栽を育てることで、同時に自分も人として盆栽に育ててもらっていることに気づかされました。
BONSAI CHANGES THE PERSON
Bonsai is often thought of as being very difficult, but, in truth, with a daily watering and a little love, you can easily raise a bonsai tree. By bringing bonsai into your own personal space, you can find solicitude in daily life. Most importantly, bonsai teaches us many things.
Unlike all of the artificial, flashy coloring of television or magazines, bonsai has a more down to earth color, a texture to it that you can genuinely feel with all of your senses. The sensation of color has an enormous, unconscious impact on our daily lives. We can be healed by the subtle color of bonsai.
A bonsai tree is a mirror which reflects you. A bonsai tree grows and ages alongside you while gazing upon you all along. Indeed, seasoned and professional bonsai aficionados have the inexplicable ability to determine to whom a bonsai tree belongs just by looking at it.
Bonsai trees absorb carbon dioxide and produce oxygen. You can experience breathing real, living oxygen which is more natural than oxygen produced by oxygenator devices. Also, as has been mentioned on TV, pouring water on a bonsai tree releases a great amount of minus ions, which are good for the skin. I believe that just by cultivating bonsai one is practicing ecological consciousness and that, the more love you give to your bonsai trees, the better the natural ecosystem around you, the sea, the rivers, the mountains, will naturally become.
Bonsai have no mouth and thus cannot speak, but they do have a heart. Just by touching a bonsai tree, I can feel it respond by taking on a more lovely form. I learned from bonsai that true love is about both giving and receiving. I have realized that I am not simply cultivating bonsai; I am being allowed to cultivate it.